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Double Edged Swords: Improving Therapy Through Interpretation - Test
by Judith A. Schaeffer, Ph.D.

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1. The conscious mind: Help
Has direct knowledge of what resides in the unconscious mind.
 Has only indirect knowledge of what resides in the unconscious mind.
 Contains material that is virtually identical to that in the unconscious mind.
 Can never get access to what the unconscious mind produces.
2. Manifestations of transference and countertransference are: Help
Usually easy to make sense of.
 Sources of evidence of what resides in the unconscious mind.
 Sources of data of what resides in the unconscious mind.
 Identical in various cultures because of the collective unconscious.
3. When talking about a third party, clients: Help
May be referring to their therapist.
 Are necessarily referring to their therapist.
 Are giving evidence of therapy not working for them.
 Are indicating that they do not wish to work on their goals.
4. Clients' feelings that seem to be single, obvious and simple: Help
Might need to be decoded in order to derive their true meaning.
 Need to be taken at face value.
 Need to match therapists' feelings in order to be usable.
 Need to be thought of as coming solely from the conscious mind.
5. Especially challenging for therapists are countertransferential feelings resulting from displaced feelings that clients: Help
Cannot put into words.
 Try to articulate.
 Own as theirs.
 Have held on to for years.
6. Dreams that clients bring into therapy: Help
Are most often clients' attempts to get out of hard work.
 Are highly symbolic but usually clear in the message they convey.
 Reveal clients' rational motives for what they do.
 Are highly symbolic and therefore call for extensive decoding.
7. As a manifestation of transference, body language, or simply movement, refers to inadvertent responses of the body to: Help
Left-hemispheric messages.
 Conscious thoughts.
 Right-hemispheric messages.
 Behaviors of which one is conscious.
8. Transferential enactments are all but one of the following: Help
Clients or therapists consciously communicating how they feel toward each other
 Therapists or clients assigning roles to each other
 Therapists and clients playing parts related to each other
 Thoughts and feelings being put into action
9. Somatization can be all but one of the following: Help
Symptoms and bodily conditions that have no clear physiological cause
 A form of acting-out rather than acting-in
 Pre-verbal trauma being manifested in a somatosensory form
 Drawing the psyche from the mind to the body
10. Interpreting transference and countertransference calls for: Help
Only right brain involvement.
 Only left brain involvement.
 Both left brain and right brain involvement.
 Neither left brain nor right brain involvement.
11. Therapists perform the task of taking in transferred material by: Help
Making a conscious decision to continue to take in what they suspect they have already taken in unconsciously.
 Moving directly to conflict resolution.
 Focusing on material that has become obvious to them.
 Disregarding their own countertransference.
12. Holding manifestations of transference and countertransference is a matter of therapists: Help
Determining by themselves exactly what they and their clients are communicating.
 Reaching closure rather than tolerating ambiguity.
 Avoiding closure, tolerating ambiguity, and permitting uncertainty to continue.
 Making sure that certain material will not be explored in therapy.
13. Therapists should permit themselves to regress to the point of: Help
Being unable to regulate affect.
 Being unable to recognize their countertransference.
 Impairing their basic ego functions.
 None of the above
14. Decoding is a process that includes all but: Help
Holding in abeyance personal meaning while being open to interpersonal meaning.
 Being open to how one is contributing to the therapeutic experience of another.
 Definitively determining what clients and therapists are revealing to each other.
 Considering whether clients' metalanguage matches their verbal language.
15. Correctly formulated non-analytic hypotheses are generally: Help
Improbable reasons.
 Complex statements.
 Definitive explanations.
 Tentative explanations.
16. Therapists find verifying their hypotheses difficult because they: Help
Are not usually sure of what they are proposing.
 Are usually too eager to disconfirm the hypotheses they are holding.
 Tend to look for supportive evidence for their hypotheses.
 Cannot know for sure what is occurring in therapy.
17. Therapists self-monitor for all but one of the following reasons: Help
To evaluate their participation in transferential processes
 To lose their ability to stand apart and take note of their participation in transferential processes
 To auto-regulate stressful countertransference
 To consider whether to take transferential roles their clients are unconsciously assigning them
18. A TRI is intended to suggest that the: Help
Client's relational conflict with the therapist will not be tolerated.
 Client is intentionally acting inappropriately.
 Therapist is not contributing to a problem in therapy.
 Client's current or past life outside of therapy is affecting the therapeutic relationship.
19. TRIs and CTRIs are interventions intended to: Help
Bring conscious material to the client's attention.
 Suggest the possibility of the client's reenacting old conflicts in the therapeutic setting.
 Prove that the client's habit of relying on old assumptions must be changed.
 Set the client straight about exactly what therapy is like.
20. A non-analytic transference interpretation (TRI) must refer to: Help
An issue in the past as well as one in the present.
 A displaced issue or problem.
 The client as having said something inappropriate.
 The therapist as being upset.
21. A non-analytic countertransference interpretation (CTRI) is an invitation to clients to: Help
Deal with conscious distortions and misinterpretations the therapist might be making.
 Explore the therapist's problems.
 Refrain from exploring their own conflicts.
 Identify unconscious distortions and unfair attributions the therapist might be making.
22. Therapists who share their TRIs and CTRIs with clients will be most effective if they come across as: Help
Confident and sure.
 Knowing more than their clients.
 Observing and wondering.
 Not needing to look at their contributions to therapy because therapy is not about them.
23. In formulating hypotheses, prosody: Help
Is just as important as wording.
 Is relatively unimportant.
 Can calm clients but not convey tentativeness.
 Can indicate tentativeness but not calm clients.
24. All but one of these are examples of calming CTRIs: Help
"I wonder if you are experiencing me as frustrated today."
 "I tend to think I am picking up dislike of me. Is that possible?"
 "I can't take any more of your contradicting me. Do you understand!"
 "I find it hard to be contradicted by clients. Can we talk about that?"
25. An example of an ego-based and neutral TRI would be the following: Help
"I know that you are angry with me."
 "I wonder whether you are angry with me."
 "Your anger with me is something even you are ashamed of."
 "You know better than to act that way."
26. An example of a TRI or CTRI that is not precise, clear, and concrete is: Help
"I wonder if you interrupt your children the way you just interrupted me."
 "Could it be that you come across as rude when you interrupt people?"
 "I wonder if you realize how you come across."
 "Referring to me as intolerant just now reminds me of how you said your employees regard you as intolerant."
27. Clients with whom TRIs and CTRIs can be beneficial display the following: Help
Moderate levels of affective arousal
 Low ego-strength
 Reliance on splitting as a defense mechanism
 High levels of arousal
28. A condition that rules out use of TRIs and CTRIs is: Help
Low-to-moderate levels of hostility and bitterness.
 Low-to-moderate levels of interpersonal sensitivity.
 Addiction to alcohol.
 Paranoia accompanied by high levels of interpersonal sensitivity.
29. Even with the right clients, TRIs and CTRIs should not be used to: Help
Establish the therapeutic alliance.
 Further the therapeutic alliance.
 Repair a ruptured therapeutic alliance.
 Prove that clients should accept their therapist's insights.
30. TRIs and CTRIs should be used: Help
As often as possible.
 Frequently rather than infrequently.
 As needed to divert clients' attention from their presenting problems.
 Interspersed with active listening, clarifications, and other interventions.

 

 

  
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